2016 Peacemaker Awards Dinner

Pulitzer Prize-winning artist & writer Karen Blessen has devoted her life to advancing nonviolence, since a young man was murdered in her front yard in 2000. She’s Founder & Executive Artistic Director of the nonprofit 29Pieces, which involves thousands, and impacts millions, with its mission - Monumental Change: Monumental Art.

Recognized for his leadership upholding the rights of all voters as the lead plaintiff in Veasey v. Abbott. Congressman Veasey took on the 2013 Texas voter ID law, which was struck down by one of the most conservative courts in the country.

Border Convergence - Oct. 2016

Members of the Dallas Peace & Justice Center joined the School of the Americas Watch in Nogales for a spirited veteran-led march across the US/Mexico border to advocate for human rights and demilitarization. October 8, 2016.

Photos, videos and articles from the Border Convergence

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Enough! A Report Back From the Border Vigil Against US State Violence

Photo: Steve Pavey

Over a thousand activists from the US and Mexico converged at the border wall on Sunday, October 9th, for a vigil to remember the victims of US state violence and celebrate our resistance against it. Gathered on both sides of the border, in Nogales, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico, we commemorated those whose lives were lost to this violence by saying their names to bring their spirits and witness before us. After each name we sang ¡Presente! to remember that the victims of violence are still here with us, they are not forgotten, and we will continue the struggle to resist US state violence in their name.

On October 9th, 200 of us marched along the dusty highway between Nogales and Tucson toward the Border Patrol checkpoint just north of Tubac, Arizona. At the front, those of us prepared to risk arrest clutched painted crosses in our hands, each bearing the name of someone murdered by US-trained assassins or the militarized US-Mexico border.